Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell bluntly warned Republican senators in a private meeting not to sign on to a bill from Sen. Josh Hawley aimed at limiting corporate money bankrolling high-powered outside groups, telling them that many of them won their seats thanks to the powerful super PAC the Kentucky Republican has long controlled.
Somehow, McConnell returned.
Jesus, I can just picture the Heritage Foundation fascist thinktank rolling a screen onto the Senate floor that’s some janky McConnell LLM Max Headroom looking AI to tell the Senate Republicans what to think.
Now that’s an obscure reference. I was a kid in the 80s, and there were whole decades of my life where, if I thought about Max Headroom at all, I suspected I had just hallucinated the whole thing.
Honestly it predates me! I grew up in the 90s and saw so many pop culture references to it over the years that I sought it out. Really ahead of its time.
Also, it’s apparently being rebooted. https://m.imdb.com/news/ni63708482/